King James Version
Isaiah 45:7 in the King James Version says “I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.” — study this verse from Isaiah chapter 45 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”
Isaiah 45:7 · KJV
I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.
Woe unto him that striveth with his Maker! Let the potsherd strive with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that fashioneth it, What makest thou? or thy work, He hath no hands?
KJV Study — Public Domain
“I form”
H3335to mould into a form; especially as a potter; figuratively, to determine (i.e., form a resolution)
“the light”
H216illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)
“and create”
H1254(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
“darkness”
H2822the dark; hence (literally) darkness; figuratively, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness
“peace”
H7965safe, i.e., (figuratively) well, happy, friendly; also (abstractly) welfare, i.e., health, prosperity, peace
“and create”
H1254(absolutely) to create; (qualified) to cut down (a wood), select, feed (as formative processes)
“I the LORD”
H3068(the) self-existent or eternal; jeho-vah, jewish national name of god
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
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